From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:38:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests.
Message-ID: <B8E9E11A-48B9-44A8-8ED2-812FFFCFABA6@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vy70589jc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>


On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:15 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:
>
>> Not all /bin/sh have a builtin echo that recognizes -n.  Using printf
>> is far more portable.
>
> This is much better (minor nit: we do not care if echo is built-in or
> /bin/echo); the point of t4030 is to produce an incomplete line ;-).

Well, yes.  The reason I phrased it that way was that my /bin/echo  
recognizes -n but /bin/sh does not.

~~ Brian